[Closed] Nandos afficianados

Quite partial to their veggieburger myself. Extra hot, no mayo, with chips. Thanks.

Ask if you can choke your own before they cook it.

I'd steer clear of their non chicken related menu.

mmmmm I like a veggieburger too any one else?

dunno but i was kinda glad of the hot sauce to kill my taste buds - perhaps just the one in union square but seemed tough chewy overcooked or reheated chicken imo ....but then i dont like any of my meat cooked to within an inch of catching on fire 😀

Half chicken hot for me. The chips and rice are lovely, but if you order macho peas instead it's idave compliant.

Medium chicken burger with chips and coleslaw 🙂 Add a bit of the hot sauce to the chips.

Add as much chilli sauce as you can, that way you'll disguise the flavour of their vile food.

Is the chicken burger a bit tasteless like they can be sometimes like KFC?

Add as much chilli sauce as you can, that way you'll disguise the flavour of their vile food.

whole chicken hot with rice and coleslaw

or a double chicken breast pitta

Chicken in pitta with ratatouille and chips as sides. Peri Peri salt on the chips and garlic and herb sauce in the pitta. Om nom nom...

chicken pitta thing, with humous and olives.

Vile food? It's chicken with a sauce over it, and has worked fine every time i've been.

Get peri-peri salt on the chips........ yum!

What an awful "restaurant" - poor food and you have to collect your own cutlery. No idea why it's so popular.

Vile food? It's chicken with a sauce over it, and has worked fine every time i've been.

Chicken piri piri is a lovely dish, but has very little in common with the muck they serve in Nando's.

Which bit's muck? The simple chicken or the simple sauce? As I said before, my (obviously uneducated) taste buds have never had any issues with Nando's

I go for half a chicken extra hot with rice and chips.

If you like chicken you will like Nando's

I quite like it, as do the family. hot half chicken and add hotter sauce !

Which bit's muck? The simple chicken or the simple sauce? As I said before, my (obviously uneducated) taste buds have never had any issues with Nando's

The chicken was rubbery (I'm guessing because it's intensively produced and pre-cooked) and the sauce was over-sweetened and gloopy. I was going to say that it's not bad value, but there's a Portugeuse place near me that does authentic chicken piri piri that is both cheaper and tastier.

What an awful "restaurant" - poor food and you have to collect your own cutlery. No idea why it's so popular.

I dont think they are trying to portray themselves as fine dining its fast food just better than Mcds (hopefully)

Collect own cutlery means no tip of course (in my book anyway)

Surely thats a chinese place that serves the rubbery chicken?,,,,,

My chicken there is not usually rubbery.

Only been once and medium was at my limit for hot spiciness. For comparison Jalfrezi is my limit on curry so make your own mind up.

On a slightly different tack I have to love my fellow Stokies. There has been a bit of a debate raging as to whether we need a £300M retail leisure complex building in the city centre. One of the arguments put forward on our local rag forum went something like;

"all you lot who are moaning about a pub being bull-dozed are a bunch of sadoes. It's time Haqnley had some quality eating establishements. I habe to drive all the way to Cheshire Oaks to go to Nandoes, I can't wait for there to be one in Hanley"!

Oh the aspiration!!!

the times I've eaten there the chicken has been awful. Their chips are okay... South African friend thinks very highly of it (good chicken livers apparently) so maybe it's amazing in SA and just not the rest of the world.

i find it ain't what it used to be... but then it never was amazing.

half chciken extra hot bothe sidelines as peri chips 3 extra hot wings too... and a drink.

One rung up from a Weatherspoon. Chain restaurant crap.

Imagine a (UK) motor way service station restaurant in the High Street - it's that exciting....

Lot of food snobs on here. It's fine. Just chicken and chips with chili sauce. It won't blow your mind, but it will stop you feeling hungry.

I had their chicken burger with refried beans.

They left through the back door far quicker than the time they spent in the atrium.

Lot of food snobs on here. It's fine. Just chicken and chips with chili sauce. It won't blow your mind, [b]but it will stop you feeling hungry.[/b]

If that's all you want, Nando's is exceptionally poor value.

I like Nandos, but it's bloody expensive for what it is!

Went for lunch earlier this week with the missis;

Red pepper dip

chicken wrap, chips, corn
double chicken pitta, chips, corn

2 drinks

frozen yogurt

£35!

And the chicken was overcooked

It's alright nothing to get worked up about, I like it, but Im easily pleased

Cant' believe the snobs on here. It's simple and unpretentious, perfectly edible and quite tasty. It's not gourmet food but I don't always want gourmet food.

And when you are hungry in a new city you don't always want to spend ages hunting for the perfect tiny exclusive place, do you?

It's hardly snobbery to point out that a lowest common denominator fast food chain doesn't serve the world's greatest food.

You can get the same food cheaper from a kebab van / late night fast food joint - Nando's is far from original or gourmet...

t's simple and unpretentious, perfectly edible and quite tasty. It's not gourmet food but I don't always want gourmet food.

Quite.

It's ostensibly an above average fast food restaurant and is a considerable improvement on your KFCs etc of this world because everything is cooked to order. It's not going to set the world alight, but then if you're stood outside looking for the Michelin Stars you're missing the point.

It's a chain of course, and I've been to good ones and bad ones, though IME the bad ones are comparatively less common.

it is simple fast food slightly more upmarket than McDonalds/Burger King and a bit healthier too depending on what you order. I dont see what all the complaints are about its not claiming to be anything other than that.

good advert too 😀

Personally, I try to support local independent restaurants, which are invariably much better quality and value for money than some horrid, soulless chain restaurant.

I dont see what all the complaints are about its not claiming to be anything other than that.

It's overpriced pap.

Personally, I try to support local independent restaurants, which are invariably much better quality

Not in my experience. I've been in many crappy independent restaurants.

Many people seem utterly convinced that the quality of the food is inversely proportional to the size of the establishment. The power of suggestion I presume 🙂

And as for soul.. what does that mean? On a week day evening, I'm away on business, don't want to eat in the hotel.. I just need some decent food quickly so I can get back to my room.. I am not really interested in 'soul'. At least I don't think I am - is it something to do with processed carbs? 🙂

Personally, I try to support local independent restaurants, which are invariably much better quality and value for money than some horrid, soulless chain restaurant.

I concur. Not my choice though

Not in my experience. I've been in many crappy independent restaurants.

So have I, but there's something soul destroying about dining in an identikit chain establishment. In addition, having had the misfortune to spend several years working in a prime example of souless chain restaurant hell, I've seen how little effort goes into the food.

My soul is perfectly fine when I eat at Nandos. I tend not to like eating at scabby Burger Kings much though... Funnily enough the places that make me feel the most depressed are small scruffy low value takeaway or lunch places.. Or some family type pubs I've been to, they are the worst. Far worse than Nandos.

Loving the tags!

I've never been in a Nandos, but I would order a taxi.